#PoL AU

[helluvaoutlaw]

Fever

Striker stood in front of the grimy mirror in his dimly lit dressing room at Ozzie's, scrutinizing his reflection with weary eyes.

His bare chest rose and fell with each heavy sigh, muscles taut with exhaustion and resignation.

The hitman (was he even a hitman anymore?) ran a comb through his hair, meticulously arranging each strand as if trying to restore some semblance of control. Beside him lay the outfit Asmodeus had personally chosen, a garish ensemble that clashed with Striker’s own tastes. But rebelling would only complicate things, and he was lucky that the King of Lust wasn’t abusing his body every night.

He slipped into the tight, revealing clothes, the fabric clinging to his form uncomfortably. The bitterness within him simmered as he questioned the endless cycle he was trapped in.

When was Asmodeus going to set him free?

Would the insatiable Deadly Sin ever be satisfied with what he demanded? Was their infernal deal destined to last until he was either too old to perform or death finally claimed him?

The sense of hopelessness was suffocating, but he knew he had no choice but to face the stage once more, his smile a mere facade for the emotional storm raging inside.

"Keep it together. Ya can do it."

Striker murmured to his own reflection, taking a deep breath before exiting the dressing room.

@the-only-noonstar

[oshawottarchive]

The Council vs Pirate of Lightning

— The Council —

After Cole is banished from the Bounty, the Crystal Council takes him in

— Pirate of Lightning —

Jay overthrows Nadakhan and takes his friends prisoner, only for Lloyd and Nya to hatch a plan to bring him down

[galacticwildfire]

Just sharing as an Australian history student to show how fucked the uni system here is. Especially when they doubled the cost of most degrees in the middle of 2020 (the year I graduated) when we’d spent our hsc studying and preparing for a certain degree/career. My year group could not suddenly change our entire life plan over a policy they introduced just as we were about to graduate and had done our uni applications.

In 2020/2021 they doubled the cost of anything arts or critical thinking related (including politics/history/law) when our government wasn’t operating as a democracy should (our prime minister swore himself into half a dozen government positions without anyone knowing) + openly said women were lucky they weren’t shot at for protesting against the country’s domestic violence problem that the government chooses to ignore.

They did this to effectively force students from low economic areas and backgrounds (myself included) into areas that needed filling (while doubling psychology when we have major shortages) and gatekeep a significant amount of degrees to the wealthy areas, effectively fucking over regional students who struggle immensely as it is with affording university.

We have a new government and they still haven’t reversed it, and I’ll be about 70k in debt for a three year degree because I had a period of illness and had to drop and retake classes in my second year. I’ll barely be able to afford my masters degree before reaching my student loan cap.

[weekendviking]

Well, what timestream is this again? Hey, @batshit-auspol, we're competing with your great nation again.

[mtfbaseball]

Assorted messy strawhat baseball au sketches from today

[royalberryriku]

Okay, in light of the "vote blue or don't vote blue" argument I'm seeing around here, I'm gonna tell you all a story.

I'm Australian and I voted for the Labour Party in the last election. For context, the Labour Party is essentially the left democrat party for Australia, while the Liberal Party is the ring wing republican one. So, I did what you'd all call "voting blue" in the USA, but in Australia. Anthony Albanese is the leader of Labour Left, a faction within the Labour Party to push it towards more leftist policies and ideals. He promised to protect minorities and said he would advocate for a free Palestine. We all voted for him believing it would help and so far, it sounds good doesn't it?

Well, here we are and Anthony Albanese has so far been pushing against pro Palestine protests, trying to implement anti protest legislation and made things actively harder for minorities in Australia. He's done nothing that he promised and of course acted almost as bad as the Liberals when they were in just before. In fact, it's arguably worse since the Labour Party has been attacking the right to protest over the last several months. They haven't done shit for minorities and if argue the ALP has actively made our lives harder.

Is voting important or not important? I don't know if u can answer that, but I can say this; politicians shouldn't be trusted to carry out promises when they're only there for self interest, regardless of what label they use to advertise that self interest. You shouldn't depend on them for change and sit around waiting for that change to come from these people. And, most importantly? There is no difference between those who voted and those who didn't when the most left leaning candidate we had has now just become legally complicit in the ICJ for genocide. There is no lesser evil when even one of us is harmed, and there is no "well at least it's not as bad" when that means sacrificing each other for the sake of a few benefits, so we have to band together and fight the whole damn system. It doesn't matter who did what, because at the end of the day the power is to the people, not the politicians who clearly can't be trusted no matter if you voted for "the right one", or chose not to vote at all. So, sure, vote. But don't expect that to change the world. You change the world through getting up with your fellow community and making a stand through your own physical actions against he system, not waiting for a politician to change anything when it's their job to lie and cheat. Reliance on the system is how we all come to lose and division is how we're silenced.

We're in this together and we need to remember what's important; each other and the power WE hold when we work together and fight against the entire system itself, not some representative in a suit.

[heterophobicdyke]

Honestly IDK why people are so worried about Harris vying for presidency now. Yeah I’m not 100% sure she’ll win either (a lot of racists and misogynists won’t vote for her for a start) but she has a much better chance than Biden who very clearly has deteriorated and is in absolutely no condition to run for president. I know people are concerned because women are often given a chance for power when shit’s hit the fan because “what have they got to lose”—and it almost always sets women up to fail—but it’s nowhere near as bad as here in AUS when our first female prime minister, Julia Gillard, was sworn in to replace male prime minister, Kevin Rudd, while he was in office, after he quit because his party hated him. You can only imagine the misogynistic stereotypes used to blame her for the party’s decision that led to his resignation. Vindictive, manipulative, witch. I’ll forever be mad that that’s how our first female prime minister made it to office. Many people (mainly men) think she was a shit prime minister despite being the most productive prime minister of all time, with the highest rate of passing legislation at 0.495.

[pollenallergie]

Everyone stop what you’re doing rn… I just had thoughts about rockstar!dad!Eddie building a playset (like the with a slide, a swingset, a little rock wall, and a wooden playhouse) in your backyard for your kids. It’s mid-July, so he has his shirt off, and he’s all sweaty. His curls are tied back with one of your scrunchies, his bandana is serving as a makeshift sweat rag, and he’s got work gloves on to protect him from getting splinters. He looks so goddamn sexy, and you’re just gawking at him through the window in your kitchen, all while burping one of your fussy babies.

Marley and Jude aren’t even walking yet, but Eddie wanted to get this playset for them while you could both afford it, not wanting to wait just in case your financial situation gets a bit less stable later on. You told him that, since they couldn’t use it yet, he could just store it in the shed and wait to assemble it until the twins are a little older. However, he insisted that he should just do it now and get it over with.

Wayne and Steve are out there helping him, but right now, they’re not even on your radar… Not when your husband looks like something straight out of a porno. Once the twins are settled, you leave them inside with Nancy so that you can bring some glasses of lemonade out to the three men working tirelessly in your backyard. As you hand Eddie his drink, he catches you openly ogling him, and he smirks. Not wanting to let a good thing go to waste, he tells Wayne and Steve that he’s gonna go inside for a quick bathroom break. Although, instead of actually doing that, he simply hauls you off to the shed and fucks you on his workbench, stray tools digging into your back and the pages of discarded instruction manuals sticking to your sweaty skin as he thrusts into you wantonly. He smells like sweat, body odor, and faintly of his old spice deodorant that he’s almost completely sweat off by now. However, you can’t find it in you to care, not when he’s fucking you so good, so hard. The two of you have been gone, missing in action, for an inordinate amount of time, but, at this point, your friends and family have become accustomed to your sudden disappearing acts; the two of you weren’t able to keep your hands off each other for more than five minutes back when you were still just dating and, clearly, that hasn’t changed since you got married a few months ago. Plus, the fact that the windows of the shed have fogged up kind of clues everyone into what the two of you are up to.

A third Munson baby is conceived that day. For the next nine months, every time you catch a glimpse of that playset in your backyard, the memories of how, exactly, the baby inside you was conceived invade your thoughts… <3

[yomawari]

I do like a man in uniform, Major General. (Modern!AU Remix)

[knavetheodore]

The goddamn dichotomy of constantly being told you're intelligent and well informed by you parents, only for you to voice an opinion that differs from them and they turn around and deny all that you've said in the name of you being young, too sensitive, overly politically correct etc. My intelligence and knowledge is only respected if I don't rock the boat too much; racism is bad! 'yes yes good!' oh encampments at university and the disruption they cause is good and your criticism of said disruption completely misses the point!, "no no no, you don't understand, what sources are you getting this from?? People should be able to be comfortable and not have to be confronted by the genocide they are complicit in! it's just instigators causing this, this isn't the feelings of the actual students!'.

its such neo-liberal nonsense. its the same thing all these universities are pushing!! 'break the mold! study here and change the world! Oh! you're actually breaking the mold? Well then we'll arrest you and kick you out!!". It's beyond frustrating.

The lives of Palestinians can be not only disrupted, but ended, their culture destroyed, but how dare the lives of some students and staff in prestigious minority-world universities have classes disrupted?? It's abominable and endlessly upsetting. You somehow have compassion for these university students but you can't show and compassion for the people of Palestine.

I'm so goddamn sick of it.

stand up for something beyond fucking symbolic change for once in your meager little lives.

also don't pretend you give a shit about Indigenous lives in this country if you can't show even the smallest ounce of solidarity with the Indigenous people of Palestine!!

[local-fire-dumpster]

Au where Sabo is a CP0 agent

Big fan of the concept of one brother ending up becoming the enemy and what better candidate for this than our resident amnesiac Sabo.

Anyways due unfortunate circumstances, Sabo ends up in the WGs hands instead of the Revs. The WG quickly realizes that this amnesic child has great potential as combatant and wants to train him as agent. The fact that he doesn't remember his past and is pretty much a bland slate is just a bonus.

Sabo is a tough child.He acts feral and the agents tasked with raising him quickly deduct that he grew up with little authority and too much freedom ,which means molding him into a good agent will be hard.

But regardless of how tough he is,Sabo is still just a child with nothing to hold on.Through the years he changes,his morals slowly go south and he is more inclined to follow orders(even if he is still the biggest freespirit amongst his peers)

Pirates,Revs, witnesses and whoever else his target is, are to be eliminated swiflty and he shows them no mercy when he kills them.

Sabo quickly works his way up the ladder,so by the time he is 18,he was already granted rank of CP0 agent

Now I've got three ideas for how this story goes:

-Ace or Luffy,(preferably Ace) finds out about CP0 Sabo and chases him.Sabo has no idea what this filthy pirate wants from him and is dragged into a cat and mouse chase between them

-Sabo remembers his brothers post marineford after seeing that ace died in the newspapers. This one is particularly nasty bc while he realizes that his brothers kept true to themselves and became great pirates,he also realizes that he turned into a filthy government dog who hurts others for the sake of World Noble scum.He has also been working for the very same Government that killed Ace. His mental state detorates incredibly fast from there on out. As his brain starts a fight between his younger and current self

-A third option that is also very grim is Sabo not remembering anything at all after Marineford. Luffy recognizes him in Dressrosa or perhaps Egghead and he is absolutely devastated by what he is seeing. But like Ace he'd never back down,not when one of his brother is involved. He'll get through to sabo

[tinycowboybro]

COWBOY BIG 🐄

more au: x x

Big is definitely one of the oldest ranch hands on the main family land, if not the oldest

he’s sort of always been there, a lot of people assume he did something as a child that Korn helped save him from in exchange for working the ranch, and that’s why he is so loyal to the family but it’s all very hush hush because Big is not exactly the sharing type

most of the ranch hands have a spotty past as it is, and most of them are “indebted” to Korn in some way

(Arm and Pol have a running wager with questionable yet growing “evidence” that it was some sort of murder that Korn helped him cover up)

overall he’s very dedicated to the ranch, he works hard and doesn’t say much until Porsche shows up and fucks everything up 24/7

Arm and Pol 100% have a small collection of photos where Big has fallen asleep with the cows

Ken is the only one who knows how Big got to the ranch but he likes to tell really outlandish lies to A&P to try and see what they will believe because he finds it funny watching them try to see if he’s telling the truth or not

[oshawottarchive]

Pirate of Lightning vs Glitched Ghost

— Pirate of Lightning —

Jay overthrows Nadakhan and takes his friends prisoner, only for Lloyd and Nya to hatch a plan to bring him down

— Glitched Ghost —

After Cole dies in Prime Empire, instead of being cubed, the ghost part of him takes over, turning him into a glitch inside of the game

[apocahipster]

australian government: hrrmmm i wonder why we have an ageing population and declining birth rate?

meanwhile in australia, a first world country:

most house holds are dual income and can’t make ends meet. we are contributing more and more of our time to labour and getting less and less in return

[mmmmmm-queer-shit]

the no vote in todays referendum is horrifying, but unfortunately not unexpected. do better. as australians, do better. as people, do better, as voters, do better. as friends and family and lovers and students and teachers and carers, do better. your ignorance is no excuse to continue the cycle of racism.

[snickerdoodlles]

📖 for kinnporsche the series? your ideas are just so good!

thank u nonny!! 😭❣

this one took me a while to type because it is my weird whacky fic child who i love very dearly but struggle to explain. so, uh.

✨ Necromancy AU ✨

Big dies in the warehouse. Porsche gets Arm to get his body out, gets Kinn to delay the cremation, and gets Chay to reanimate Big.

(because reanimating the dead is just something Chay can do, because he figured it'd be a good skill to learn and he's my most specialest boy.)

Kinn (who's at the morgue for Porsche) is flabbergasted, Khun (who's at the morgue by a miracle) is stunned silent, and Kim (who's here because Khun texted him but didn't say Chay would be here) is more shocked by Big than Chay's abilities.

(Kim is the only person other than Porsche to just accept necromancy as A Reasonable Thing For Chay To Know. this is why they're Chay's favorites.)

anyways so Big is now awake and surrounded by this family. this is hell. not just for him, his sudden undead status is causing a lot of problems:

Porsche just had Chay bring Big back, he didn't like...tell anyone what was happening or make a plan for what to do with him.

Kinn just figured out his new guard roster, and now he has to redo it to accommodate one very grumpy and very loyal Big who now doesn't need trivial things like sleep or food.

there's the looming specter of Khun's upcoming dry cleaning bill because he won't. stop. poking. Big.

Big is trying very, very, very hard to ignore that not only do people know he knew about Porsche and Kinn, but that he loves Kinn so much he died protecting Porsche.

speaking of, Porsche just thanked him for saving Chay and (in a quieter voice) for saving him.

Big is in hell.

despite all that, Big's plans for his new life are to just go back to being Kinn's perfect guard. he is ignoring the awkwardness, none of this is fine, none of this will be fine, but it will be NORMAL.

this is hampered by the fact that whoops, turns out the undead need to hang around their "masters" for at least a few hours every couple of days to "recharge" so to speak, as discovered by Pol when he screamed so loud he set a fire alarm off because he stumbled over Big's body face down in front of Kinn's door at 2am.

this is even further hampered by Korn, who will absolutely not stand for his preferred heir being guarded by someone who might be more loyal to someone other than him. Korn uses the "recharge" issue to force Big out by way of making him Chay's permanent guard.

so now Big, the perfect bodyguard who only got better at his job in death, is now stuck hanging around a high schooler who doesn't get into trouble and just wants to make music with his bitchy boyfriend.

(because oh yeah, mr. the untamed nerd Kim is obviously ridiculously into Chay being able to resurrect the dead and leaks feelings before he can run away and sabotages all future attempts to ghost Chay (insert necromancer joke here). Kim's fears of love and hurting those he loves will cause different problems.)

anyways, Big is suffering. not only is he stuck guarding Porsche's baby brother (who! he's realizing he likes as a person! will the horrors never cease!), Chay keeps being nice and thoughtful and looking out for him as a person and asking after his happiness and shit (the horrors!! are not ceasing!!!!). when Big finally has enough of all this Being Treated Like A Human Being business and asks Chay why he even cares, Chay blurts out "Big, do you even want to be alive?"

because this has been eating at Chay ever since he brought Big back at the morgue. because he never knew Big and never asked if he'd want to be alive again, Chay just did it for Porsche, who wasn't doing it for Big but for his own guilt. and then Big's old life was like an ill-fitting glove, because he and Porsche can't be bitches with Big's sacrifice hanging over them but don't know how to act when they aren't being bitches, Korn won't accept him back because he only sees his own paranoia and none of Big's loyalty, and Kinn might appreciate Big's loyalty but he won't fight for it either, not when he's trying to juggle the rest of Korn's messes coming to fruition. Big's been completely forced out of his old life and any ties he might've kept to the other guards (as few as they were) are ruined by the others' guilt and discomfort, because Big might not have died in the first place if literally anyone had listened to him during the Tawan debacle, which they could ignore when he was dead but can't when he's alive and there in front of them.

and the whole confession draws Big up short because no one's ever asked him what he wants before. Big was just the son of a mafia enforcer who got scooped up young by the main family as a personal guard for Kinn. Big's never even considered that what he wants could be an option. even when he first came back, his main considerations were on the ways he was a better guard for Kinn. Big's chosen more things for himself in his weeks with Chay than he has in his life, and he never stopped to think how he feels about that.

he does now. kinda. this is Big after all. but after both forty-three excruciating minutes and three days, Big finally answers Chay, "i never lived for me before. it's...nice." Chay, who's gotten quite good at reading between the lines after all the exposure from Kim and Big, beams and makes him help him pick his electives for his first semester of university, because Chay's determined to help Big find a hobby and he's overcome far tougher things than emotional constipation.

[[ ask me about fics im not writing ]]

Bonus

small scene snippet from shortly after Big's first brought back to life, right after Kim's walked into screaming, stolen Pol's gun, and shoved Chay behind him for protection, because i love themm

Kim opens and closes his mouth silently before sputtering, “But you— I heard— What…?!”

Chay worms his arms around Kim’s waist to get his attention and his head pops over Kim’s shoulder. “It’s okay, phi,” he says soothingly, “I brought him back.”

Big gets an eye full of Kim’s face flashing through four emotions he recognizes and thirty he doesn’t, which is thirty-four more emotions than Big can deal with. Kim twists around in Chay’s hold, just enough to squint at him from the corner of his eye without letting Big out of his gun’s sight line. 

“You know how to resurrect the dead?”

Chay drops his chin onto Kim’s shoulder with a huff. “Why do people keep asking me that? It seemed like a useful skill to know!”

“Obviously,” Kim scoffs, which is the first original response Big’s heard to that all day. “I meant you can do it? What, we’re you bored and just googled ‘how to make a zombie’ one day after school?!”

Chay rolls his eyes and pokes the undersides of Kim’s ribs. Shockingly, Kim pushes further into his hold, rather than away. “Don’t be silly. You have to be trained by a shaman to make a zombie.”

Kim actually turns to look at him dead on. His gun is still trained on Big. 

Chay cocks his head to the side. “What? I just googled ‘how to bring back the dead’ and went from there. It’s basically CPR!”

“That worked?”

Chay looks genuinely baffled. “Why wouldn’t it?”

Kim stares at him incredulously before suddenly going boneless in Chay’s hold, squishing him back against the wall. Chay does not protest being squished between Kim and a hard place. He actually looks delighted by it. Big would like to go throw up now. He doesn’t know if corpses can do that, but he’s willing to make an effort. 

“Of course it works, you’re you,” Kim grumbles. He knocks his head against Chay’s and rubs in a move so cute Big will throw up, death be damned. “If life worked for me like that...”

Chay beams and pats his stomach. “I’ll teach you!”

Turns out corpses can't throw up, but they can gag so hard they choke.